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foresee

[fawr-see] / fɔrˈsi /


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McVay has said in the last few weeks that he did not foresee the Rams being active before Tuesday’s NFL trade deadline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

They can carry memories the characters suppress and consequences they cannot foresee; the orchestra can reinforce a boast, expose a lie or transform a farewell into a prophecy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

He failed to foresee the return to form of small-cap stocks in the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

“If I can foresee this, then I think an engineer who’s designing the product can foresee it too.”

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

“But, my dear knight, how could yours truly foresee a calamity of this nature?”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

He also foresees her consolidating some departments, such as the Street Services repaving division under the city’s transportation department, and directing city departments to implement Measure HLA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

However, the forecast still foresees a year-on-year decline in profit of 7.2 percent.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

The brokerage also foresees front-loading of exports for hybrid plug-ins and full EVs from 4Q26 to 1Q27 to avoid the impact of lower export-tax rebates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

That foresees a world of disrupted trade through tariffs and conflicts over chokepoints, more costly onshoring and less immigration, while political systems test the limits of spending to fund their militaries.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

“Mr. Curtain foresees a ‘call to greater duty’ in the near future.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

James Wilson foresaw a country more egalitarian and more democratic than his contemporaries dared imagine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Ireland said its new draft -- which used 2025 prices -- foresaw an overall cut on the earlier proposal of 141 billion euros, or 8 percent overall.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

Similarly, General Shirreff wrote the political thriller "War With Russia" in 2016, in which he foresaw Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

The signers of the Declaration of Independence never foresaw a World Cup, much less an American World Cup team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

I think that already he foresaw his livelihood being wrested from him, for he salted and tanned his own skins, making them into chaplis for those in the village who wore them.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Hoovering up gobs of information, analyzing data without external constraints, and addressing complex problems on a purely pragmatic, results-oriented basis allow AI to offer insights and strategies that its human creators haven’t foreseen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

It is, therefore, mystifying as to how they got it so wrong, as the problems could be foreseen by anyone with an understanding of F1.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

To a degree that even critics could not have foreseen a year ago, the United States struts and frets on the world stage alone.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

Addressed to Burnham and the arts minister Lisa Nandy, the petition posted by activist group Good Law Project claimed Arday's death was "the direct, foreseeable and foreseen result of press harassment".

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

“If I could have foreseen ten years ago how things would happen, I’ve have cleared out too. I’m too old now. And besides, I’ve got my daughters and grandchildren here.”

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

People could be forgiven for not foreseeing the earth-shattering events that were around the bend—the Depression, World War II, the birth of Elvis Presley.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

He is shifting Brazil exposure to longer-term bonds, foreseeing a “neutral” interest rate of 10% to 11%, eventually.

From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025

Zarqa Al Yamama is the story of a blue-eyed tribal matriarch with the gift of foreseeing the future in pre-Islamic Arabia.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2024

The A.M.A., reflecting a now bygone era perhaps more optimistic than our own, was foreseeing a continuing tide of advances in medical science that would carry people along in good health for decade after decade.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

She planned everything coldly, foreseeing difficulties and preparing for them.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck


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